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transmissions from the trench.

fischradio is a small, patient radio station. A slow current of music, ambient broadcasts, midnight monologues, and field recordings from somewhere below the surface — sequenced by hand, played in order, designed to be left on.

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manifesto · 001

We don't play to the algorithm. We play to the room.

fischradio began as a small experiment — a question about what radio could feel like if it remembered that you might be doing dishes, reading in bed, driving home in the rain, or simply staring at a wall. We wanted something that didn't shout.

Every show is sequenced by a person. Every transition is on purpose. Tracks bleed into each other; mistakes get left in; the host occasionally forgets to introduce the song, and that's fine. The format is permission to drift.

We don't chase trends. We don't optimise for retention. We don't run ads. We broadcast slowly, on purpose, from below the surface — and you are welcome here for as long as the signal holds.

01 · format

ambient drift

Long-form mixes that move like tide. Two-hour sets without a hard cut, layered field recordings, generative pieces, and unhurried selections from the deep crates.

14 showsavg. 96 min

02 · format

late transmissions

Voices from the night shift. Interviews recorded after midnight, half-asleep monologues, dispatches from listeners, and the occasional crank call we kept in.

22 showsavg. 41 min

03 · format

curated currents

New finds and old favourites, sequenced by hand. No mood playlists, no recommendation engine. Just one person, one hour, a stack of records, and an opinion.

31 showsavg. 58 min

voices · the people behind the desk

A handful of regulars, broadcasting from where they are.

Nereus

Wellington · ambient, generative

Records his sets at low tide, when the harbour is quiet. Believes a good mix should be long enough to fall asleep to and finish a thought.

residency Deepwater Sessions · Mondays

Marina & Caspian

Lisbon · conversation, archive

A two-person dispatch. Half interview show, half kitchen-table argument. They will dig into a record until it surrenders.

residency Tide Pool Talk · Wednesdays

Lior

Tel Aviv · electronic, ritual

Friday-night sets that begin patient and end somewhere strange. Lior reads poetry between tracks and refuses to explain himself.

residency Bioluminescence · Fridays

Ada

Berlin · morning, jazz, folk

Mornings only. Brings coffee, brings a record stack, doesn't take requests. Closes every show with a song her grandmother used to sing.

residency Morning Reef · Sundays

schedule · this week

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archive · recent transmissions

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2,140m

depth below sea level

214

hours broadcast this season

9

residents on rotation

0

algorithmic playlists used

We wanted a station that you could leave on for a week and never feel sold to — a slow channel for people who already know what they like but want to be surprised once or twice a night.

— from the founding letter, winter 2025

signal · weekly letter

A short letter, once a week, when the tide is out.

What we played, what we're listening to, what's coming up. Sent on Sundays. No tracking, no fluff. Unsubscribe with a single click.